AMD's Mark Papermaster has announced that his leap-frogging design teams are hard at work in the design phase of the AMD Zen 5 CPU architecture. Yeah, ZEN FREAKING FIVE. AMD doesn't mess around. Not ...

One of the best-known photographs of the late Steve Jobs pictures him sitting in the middle of the living room of his Los Altos house, circa 1982. There isn’t much in the room, save an audio system ...

Let's begin with a disclaimer from Berkeley architect Helen Degenhardt about the design of "spiritual" buildings - defined, for the purposes of this story, as structures intended for Zen-like ...

AMD Zen 3 processors are getting a little Linux love ahead of their release later this year, seemingly confirming a significant change from the existing Zen CPU architectures we've already seen. AMD ...

AMD knew it needed to make radical changes in its Zen CPU chip to become a force in the PC and server markets again. So when the chip designers sat down four years ago to etch out the Zen design, they ...

Advanced Micro Devices revealed the Zen 2 architecture for the family of processors that it will launch in the coming years, starting with 2019. The move is a follow-up to the competitive Zen designs ...

Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss how to keep improving performance per watt, new packaging options, and the ...